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The Presence Of Peach Spring - Daoism, Ritual, And Locality

by Mark Meulenbeld

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 Drawing on more than two decades of fieldwork, Mark Meulenbeldâ€™s The Presence of Peach Spring reassesses Tao Qianâ€™s classic Daoist story â€œRecord of Peach Blossom Springâ€ through the category of the sacred and connects it to its geographic context and ritual referents in northern Hunan.
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Feeling The Past In Seventeenth-Century China

by Xiaoqiao Ling

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 Feeling the Past in Seventeenth-Century China highlights the central role played by the body in writersâ€™ memories during the Mingâ€"Qing cataclysm. Sight, sound, taste, and touch configured ordinary experiences next to traumatic events. This embodied experience reveals literatureâ€™s mission of remembrance as a moral endeavor in cultural continuity.
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Paradox Of Being - Truth, Identity, And Images In Daoism

by Poul Andersen

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 Through research into Daoist ritual in history and as it survives today, Andersen shows that the concept of truth in Chinese Daoist philosophy and ritual posits being as a paradox anchored in the inexistent Way, and consists in seeking to be an exception to ordinary norms and rules of behavior which nonetheless engages what is common to us all.
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Performing Enlightenment - Buddhism And Theater In Early Modern China

by Mengxiao Wang

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 In Performing Enlightenment, Mengxiao Wang argues that the late Ming and early Qing Buddhists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries resolved their conflict between religion and worldly entertainment by transforming playwriting, stage performance, and theatergoing into a creative mode of devotional practice.
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Flourishing Fasts - Vegetarian Sects In Late Imperial And Modern Chinese Societies

by Nikolas Broy

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 Flourishing Feasts is the first book to explore the socioreligious history of the Zhaijiao, â€œvegetarian sects,â€ that originated in China during the Ming and Qing dynasties and are still active in Taiwan today. Through historical analysis and ethnographic fieldwork, Broy shows their engagement in political, economic, legal, and cultural affairs.
Dialogues In The Dark - Interpreting Â€Œheavenly Questionsâ€ Across Two Millennia

by Nicholas Morrow Williams

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 Dialogues in the Dark traces how Chinese readers and scholars since the Han dynasty have variously interpreted the ancient poem â€œHeavenly Questionsâ€ (Tianwen), an enigmatic work attributed to Qu Yuan (fl. ca. 300 BCE). Nicholas Morrow Williams analyzes how the poemâ€™s meaning evolved in different time periods and provides three new translations.
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Health And The Art Of Living: Illness Narratives In Early Medieval Chinese Literature

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Health And The Art Of Living: Illness Narratives In Early Medieval Chinese Literature

by Antje Richter

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 Health and the Art of Living offers reflections on health and illness in early medieval Chinese literature (ca. 200â€"ca. 600) through a range of literary sourcesâ€"essays, prefaces, correspondence, religious scriptures, and poetry; including works by Liu Xie and Xie Lingyun.
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The Manchu Mirrors And The Knowledge Of Plants And Animals In High Qing China

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The Manchu Mirrors And The Knowledge Of Plants And Animals In High Qing China

by He Bian e Marten Soderblom Saarela

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 The Manchu Mirrors and the Knowledge of Plants and Animals in High Qing China is the first systematic study of the codification of Manchu and Chinese words for animals and plants in the eighteenth century. Bian and SÃ¶derblom Saarela show how Qing lexicographical practices left a lasting impact on natural historical scholarship in the modern era.
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A Historical Taxonomy Of Talking Birds In Chinese Literature

by Wilt L. Idema

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 Parrots and mynahs have played a unique role in Chinese literature for two millennia. In this wide-ranging thematic study, Wilt L. Idema traces the development of the parrot and the mynah as characters in many forms of poetry and prose of Chinese elite literature, as well as in the long narrative ballads of traditional popular literature.
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The Collapse Of Heaven - The Taiping Civil War And Chinese Literature And Culture, 1850â€“1880

by Huan Jin

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 The Collapse of Heaven investigates a long-neglected century in Chinese literature through the lens of the Taiping War (1851â€"1864). Huan Jin examines manifold literary and cultural transformations through pamphlets, diaries, poetry, fiction, and drama. The book offers an important comparative perspective on the global nineteenth century.
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The Painting Masterâ€™S Shame - Liang Shicheng And The Xuanhe Catalogue Of Paintings

by Amy Mcnair

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 The Painting Masterâ€™s Shame describes the remarkable circumstances of the period around 1120, when the Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings was written. Amy McNairâ€™s translation and analysis offers a definitive argument for Liang Shicheng, not Emperor Huizong, as the catalogueâ€™s compiler.
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Dreaming And Self-Cultivation In China, 300 Bceâ€“800 Ce

by Robert Ford Campany

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 In Dreaming and Self-Cultivation in China, 300 BCEâ€"800 CE, Robert Ford Campany examines how dreaming was addressed in texts produced and circulated by practitioners of Daoist, Buddhist, Confucian, and other self-cultivational disciplines. He uncovers paradigms by which dreams are viewed and shows how they underlay diverse religious texts.
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Genealogy And Status - Hereditary Office Holding And Kinship In North China Under Mongol Rule

by Tomoyasu Iiyama

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 By shedding light on a long-forgotten epigraphic genre called â€œgenealogical stelesâ€ that flourished in North China during the Mongol Empire, or Yuan Dynasty (1271â€"1368), Genealogy and Status explores the ways the conquered Chinese people understood and represented the alien Mongol ruling principles and kinship through their own cultural tradition.
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Lineages Embedded In Temple Networks - Daoism And Local Society In Ming China

by Richard G. Wang

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 In Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks, Richard Wang explores the key role played by elite Daoists in social and cultural life in Ming China, notably by mediating between local networks and the state through their clerical lineagesâ€"empire-wide networks channeling knowledge and resourcesâ€"and by controlling central temples.
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Chinese History

by Endymion Wilkinson

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 The sixth edition of Chinese History: A New Manual, revised and expanded to two volumes, includes the latest developments in digital tools and the ancillary disciplines essential for work on Chinese history. Volume 1 covers topics ranging from Language to Technology. Volume 2 presents primary and secondary sources chronologically by period.
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Building For Oil - Daqing And The Formation Of The Chinese Socialist State

by Li Hou

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 Building for Oil records the rise of the â€œPetroleum Groupâ€ in the central government while revealing the everyday stories and struggles of the working class. The book traces the roots and maturation of the Chinese socialist state and its early industrialization and modernization policies during a time of unprecedented economic growth.
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Chinese History

by Endymion Wilkinson

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 The sixth edition of Chinese History: A New Manual, revised and expanded to two volumes, includes the latest developments in digital tools and the ancillary disciplines essential for work on Chinese history. Volume 1 covers topics ranging from Language to Technology. Volume 2 presents primary and secondary sources chronologically by period.
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Localizing Learning - The Literati Enterprise In Wuzhou, 1100â€“1600

by Peter K. Bol

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 The first intellectual history of Song, Yuan, and Ming China written from a local perspective, Localizing Learning traces how debates over the relative value of cultural accomplishment and political service unfolded locally. Close readings and quantitative analysis of social networks consider why and how the local literati enterprise was built.
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Ethnic Chrysalis - Chinaâ€™S Orochen People And The Legacy Of Qing Borderland Administration

by Loretta E. Kim

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 Ethnic Chrysalis is the first book in English to cover the early modern history of the Orochen, an ethnic group that has for centuries inhabited areas now belonging to the Russian Federation and the Peopleâ€™s Republic of China. Kim examines how the impact of political organization in one era can endure in a groupâ€™s social and cultural values.
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Building For Oil - Daqing And The Formation Of The Chinese Socialist State

by Li Hou

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 Building for Oil is a historical account of the oil town of Daqing in northeastern China during the formative years of the People's Republic and describes Daqing's rise and fall as a national model city. Hou Li traces the roots of the Chinese socialist state and its early industrialization and modernization policies.
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After The Prosperous Age - State And Elites In Early Nineteenth-Century Suzhou

by Seunghyun Han

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 Scholars have described the eighteenth century in China as a time of â€œstate activismâ€ and often associate the Taiping Rebellion and postbellum restoration efforts with the origins of elite activism. Seunghyun Han, however, argues that the ascendance of elite activism can be traced to the Jiaqing and Daoguang reigns in the early nineteenth century.
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The Burden Of Female Talent - The Poet Li Qingzhao And Her History In China

by Ronald C. Egan

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 An exception to the rule that the first-rank poets in premodern China were men, the woman poet Li Qingzhao (1084â€"1150s) occupies a crucial place in Chinese literature. Ronald C. Egan challenges conventional thinking about Li, examining how critics tried to accommodate her to cultural norms from late imperial times into the twentieth century.
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Readings In Chinese Literary Thought

by Stephen Owen

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 This dual-language compilation of seven complete major works and many shorter pieces from the Confucian period through the Châ€™ing dynasty will be indispensable to students of Chinese literature as well as theorists and scholars of other languages.
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To Become A God - Cosmology, Sacrifice, And Self-Divinization In Early China

by Michael J. Puett

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 By treating the issues of cosmology, sacrifice, and self-divinization in a historical and comparative framework that attends to the contemporary significance of specific arguments, Puett shows that the basic cosmological assumptions of ancient China were the subject of far more debate than is generally thought.
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